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assistant Professor Yvonne Y. chen
assistant Professor alexander a. sherstov
Ph.D. — California Institute of Technology Yvonne Chen’s research interests center on the engineering of synthetic biological systems with modular, programmable functions for a wide range of applications, particularly in health and medicine. Her current research focuses on engineering immune cells for targeted cancer therapy. Prior to joining UCLA Engineering, Chen was a research scientist at the Center for Immunity and Immunotherapies at Seattle Children’s Research Institute. She received her Ph.D. in chemical engineering from the California Institute of Technology. Chen will spend the next two years as a Junior Fellow with the Harvard University Society of Fellows before arriving at the UCLA campus in the fall of 2013.
Ph.D. — The University of Texas at Austin Alexander Sherstov’s research is in theoretical computer science, with broad interests that include complexity theory, computational learning, and quantum computing. Prior to joining UCLA Engineering, Sherstov was a postdoctoral researcher at Microsoft Research. While he was a graduate student at the University of Texas at Austin, Sherstov received four best student paper awards at major international conferences on theoretical computer science. Sherstov was born and raised in the former Soviet Union, in the city of Karaganda, Kazakhstan. He came to the United States in 2000 to attend Hope College in Holland, Michigan, where he graduated summa cum laude.
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